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Four of the five patrolmen took civil service tests in April and were among the 73 persons listed as eligible for promotion. The blacks scored 92.38, 90.16, 81 and 89.52 on a 100-point scale. The highest scoring black patrolman, Calvin J. Kantor, ranked twentieth on the civil service eligibility list...
...ALFRED KANTOR 127 pages. McGraw-Hill...
...Alfred Kantor, now 48, works as an artist in a New York advertising agency. In 1939, because he was a Jew in Nazi-occupied Prague, he had to leave art school. In 1941, at age 18, he was sent to Terezin, a camp the Nazis used as a staging point for deadlier installations like Auschwitz. Kantor went there too, in 1943, but was saved from death because he was still strong enough to be drafted for work at a camp that provided laborers for a synthetic-fuel factory. In a brief introductory narrative, Kantor explains all this, and outlines what...
...while in an American D.P. camp, Kantor got the sketches together and created in a single bound book a visual diary of what he had seen, with brief captions, first in Czech, then in what he describes as "the best Prague highschool English I could muster." The Book of Alfred Kantor is simply a facsimile reproduction of that diary: more than 150 small and mostly cramped sketches that had sat in Kantor's library for years until friends persuaded him to have it published...
...skilled child might send home from quite a different sort of camp. Partly for that reason, the book is a rare document that somehow reaches the reader's imagination in more enduring ways than more dramatically horrifying renderings ever could. Horror, of course, is organic to the world Kantor drew. He shows naked bodies being disgorged from a room after Cyclone-B gas has just been tested; the forlorn, rumpled figure of a woman in the snow who committed suicide by touching the high-tension barbed wire around Auschwitz; SS guards abusing prisoners. But he also has dozens...